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I wonder if being able to generate music will make people less interested in actually bothering to learn how to do it themselves. Having ai tool makes many things so much easier and you need to have only rudimentary understanding of the subject.
I believe it will depend on a couple different factors. Putting keywords into a generator isn't the same as laying your hands on an instrument, being able to physically play it yourself. However, if the result is so perfect and beautiful that a person could have never possibly come up with it on their own, it might be discouraging (but I can't really see that happening)
Like one can use POV-Ray for pictures, one can use a script generating ABC sequences and choosing keys and instruments according to some math, which are then converted to MIDI, for music. It's not all machine learning (which is more or less just extrapolation).
Then, with ML you can be smarter than just finding a generator and feeding it keywords. You can (with converters and stuff) use ML for sequences and keys and instruments known to "feel good" with your own brain. Say, playing with different optimization criteria for the last N elements (notes) of a sequence (using how they relate to each other etc). EDIT: ... and then use the result to generate something.
I guarantee that the result won't be anywhere near perfect and beautiful, though.